The Mystery of Our Existence

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Friday, November 20, 2009

Cosmic eyeblink.

Just read in Scientific American:

"[...] 2.6 million years. That is a cosmic eyeblink."

Doesn't this statement give you so much to think about? Read it very slowly...

We're so small.

Is our existence (comprising several life cycles, possibly) always confined to this solar system or are the existences within the cosmos interchangeable?
We must be like the leaves on a tree: each leaf is a singular unit, but the "species leaf" is recycled during billions of years. Now, does the unit "leaf" have the most importance or the species "leaf"?